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Elastic "I Think": Stretching over L1 and L2
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Zhang, Grace Q.; Sabet, Peyman G. P. – Applied Linguistics, 2016
While there has been insightful research on the commonly used expression "I think" (IT), this study introduces a non-conventional and innovative conception of elasticity (Zhang 2011), bringing together several properties of IT. Drawn on large-scale naturally occurring classroom data with a rare combination of linguistically and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Applied Linguistics, Native Language, North American English